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iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard
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Astuces iOS
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FAH, not able to :
- release Apple intelligence
- Update apps like Pixelmator pro one time purchase to Liquid Glass, or iMovie idk give Liquid Glass to Final Cut Pro idk... Do something
- Less features in .1,.2,.3,.4 updates (we saw no black unity wallpaper for example)
- AND NOW NO MORE UPDATES ??? What's wrong with Apple time to switch to windows and android? Go check stocks they are crashing !
- release Apple intelligence
- Update apps like Pixelmator pro one time purchase to Liquid Glass, or iMovie idk give Liquid Glass to Final Cut Pro idk... Do something
- Less features in .1,.2,.3,.4 updates (we saw no black unity wallpaper for example)
- AND NOW NO MORE UPDATES ??? What's wrong with Apple time to switch to windows and android? Go check stocks they are crashing !
Ah yes, the system-wide integration of advanced AI features is definitely a Snow Leopard release.
And macOS, which will be introducing touch, is obviously going to be feature-limited as well.
lmao
I like all the complaints about the watch fitness app though, that really is garbage unless you have a brand new model and even then it sucks. Write to tcook@ apple... his handlers get it and it does make it to the customer sat. teams.
And macOS, which will be introducing touch, is obviously going to be feature-limited as well.
lmao
I like all the complaints about the watch fitness app though, that really is garbage unless you have a brand new model and even then it sucks. Write to tcook@ apple... his handlers get it and it does make it to the customer sat. teams.
Ha, and they sold that OS for a fraction of their regular price as a gesture of goodwill and admittance that Leopard was eseijaitee.
Adjusted for inflation and considering that os dev is now 100 subsidised by hardware prices, doesn’t this mean that Apple owes every person with a compatible Mac a 100 usd gift card 😅
Adjusted for inflation and considering that os dev is now 100 subsidised by hardware prices, doesn’t this mean that Apple owes every person with a compatible Mac a 100 usd gift card 😅
They should do a Snow Leopard like release every other year. Alternate new features with optimizations. Then let the optimization OS be the last OS all machines get, and get security updates longer. Then they could completely drop updates for the feature update version when they move to the stability update halving the number of OS's they really need to maintain, while also providing a more stable longer term support for other machines.
User 6502
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I don’t believe for one second it’ll be particularly stable and less prone to bugs or visual inconsistencies, sadly Apple’s softer quality has nosedived in the last few years and I doubt this will suddenly change. It is however very easy to believe it will be yet another boring release with little to none newsworthy new features, as this is what Apple has given us for many years in a row now.
MacFan782040
macrumors 65816
I feel like most posters here are very young.
Snow Leopard was awesome. To be honest macOS has been going slowly downhill ever since.
Snow Leopard was awesome. To be honest macOS has been going slowly downhill ever since.
Link articles that say the same thing in previous years. As far as I can, remember, I don’t think I’ve seen this one yet.
rotvaldi
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Or better yet, don't let marketing dictate the software release schedule and instead release software when it's ready to be released.
The whole "beta to the public!" approach has set the bar terribly low for quality.
THIS is the reason macOS (iOS?) 27 will be like Snow Leopard… Removing fat binaries that contain Intel-specific assets and removing drivers that support legacy (non-Apple Silicon) hardware should in theory make macOS run smoother on more recent Macs! Supporting legacy is the main reason development is held back, as incompatible hardware designs make it difficult to sustain long term.
Edit: The article mentions iOS 27 (the iPhone OS) and Snow Leopard (a Mac OS), although the two don’t have much in common. Perhaps there’s legacy stuff being removed from iOS too!
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That would be a horrible idea. Yes now and then they need to do a release with limited new features in order to better focus on performance and bugs, but you don't PLAN to do a release with lots of features but problems then a release where you fix those problems. Much better to try to do both every year and now and then when you fall behind on that goal you spend more time on fixes.
switz
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As I remember, v27 leaves the Intel processor crowd out in the woods with nothing to look forward to. That would mean that even Rossetta might not carry forward either ???
No issues with my gear most o the time with work gear on latest official release and beta test gear to see what is going on: iPhone 12 mini, iPad mini v7 and M4 MacBook Air are on the beta train. The M4 has become derailed for two of the latest betas.
Main gear works okay, except when it doe not.. iPhone 17 sometimes has a hiccup and a hardware reset gets it back on track. Reliability of official release software sure is not the Apple promise right now.
No issues with my gear most o the time with work gear on latest official release and beta test gear to see what is going on: iPhone 12 mini, iPad mini v7 and M4 MacBook Air are on the beta train. The M4 has become derailed for two of the latest betas.
Main gear works okay, except when it doe not.. iPhone 17 sometimes has a hiccup and a hardware reset gets it back on track. Reliability of official release software sure is not the Apple promise right now.
This better be true. Apple’s hardware is dead on point right now but its software is so bloody awful.
Shirasaki
macrumors P6
B…but career progression of a front line worker is managing other people, not doing more work! (Apple managers crying internally)
- something like this. Besides, bossing people around is cool for quite a few and it would be hard to get back to being front line workers again.
I'm not suggesting they plan on bugs. But whenever you do add new features, bugs do tend to come along with them. In the annual cycle, they always end up releasing a new OS with new bugs before actually fixing many of the old bugs. So with this sort of tick tock cycle they can have a release that is just bug focused. I was hoping that's what they were going to do after they did Snow Leopard back in the day. That model isn't new, Ubuntu has been doing it with their LTS release every other release for as long as I can remember.
Well this is definitely not always true as I myself spent a long career writing software (retired now) and never wanted to manage because that would take me away from what I love doing. A lot of companies have career tracks to let you earn more and have more responsibility without managing. Often those that do move into management didn't really love developing anyway.
I recall iOS 12 beta 1 being more stable and bug-free than the final build of iOS 11.
Hopefully iOS 27 beta 1 repeats the same idea.
Hopefully iOS 27 beta 1 repeats the same idea.
Rosetta will still run on macOS 27. It will be deprecated on macOS 28, limited to support for some gaming APIs.
Snow Leopard didn't have touchscreen support so I think that will be a problem but I could be wrong.
mjs916
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In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.
mjs916
macrumors 65816
Which machine and what trackpad issues? I have an M1 Pro on 26.3.1 and my trackpad is great as expected.
Can you describe what you’re experiencing so I can know if I’m overlooking something? I’m super happy with mine. I have it set to accept a tap as a click btw if that matters.
Honestly, iOS 26 is still, after 9 months, the worst Apple software ever released since 1984. I am *still* finding new bugs almost every day, hundreds of them (reported to Apple). What a mess, what an abomination.
In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009's Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple's biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.
At WWDC 2008, Apple showed a presentation that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had "0 new features," as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac.
"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown," said Apple's former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. "Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before."
iOS 27 will still get some new features too, including a more personalized version of Siri. The update should be announced in June and released in September.
Article Link: iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard
